9.8

CVE-2026-72249: linux

CVSS: 9.8v3.1CriticalReceived
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-72249DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72249
Published 15-08-2026Last modified 17-08-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-72249 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.55%
0%100%
Low · +0.04 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 6
USN-8816-1USN-8816-2USN-8816-3USN-8816-4USN-8888-1USN-8888-2

Timeline

  1. 15-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 17-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: flowtable: use dst in this direction when pushing IPIP header When pushing the IPIP header, the route of the other direction is used to calculate the headroom, use the route in this direction. Accessing the other tuple to set the IP source and destination is fine because this tuple does not provide such information to avoid storing redundant information. However, this tuple already provides the dst for this direction, this went unnoticed because this bug affects headroom and iph->frag_off only at this stage.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.55%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

45%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.04 pp

From 0.52% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.55%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu115 products
  • linux< 7.0.0-34.34
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 7.0.0-1013.13
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 7.1.5-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ d30301ba4b07ac92eb38353a111833b009003170, < ecb78fbb03d3f86e2e93767875e273308086a424 | ≥ d30301ba4b07ac92eb38353a111833b009003170, < c328b90c17fc5fa7786503695152880b2afb9326 | 6.19

3 vendors · 117 products

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